Palin-McCain: Can't Get Energy Facts Right
Getting facts wrong when it comes to energy issues is becoming standard for the Palin-McCain ticket.
Getting facts wrong when it comes to energy issues is becoming standard for the Palin-McCain ticket.
The Daily Green | Posted 05.25.2011
In a story, fittingly, featured in the Charleston Gazette, in West Virginia's coal country, about people are puzzling over how John McCain and Barack ...
Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain trumpets his support for government loans to help the auto industry. What he doesn't tell you is that he was opposed to helping the automakers until just last month.
Bloomberg | Elliot Blair Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain's plan to revive the U.S. nuclear power industry with 45 new reactors may cost $315 billion, with taxpayers bearing much of the financial ...
Grist | David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
In her first substantial interview with a news journalist since being picked as John McCain's vice presidential candidate two weeks ago, Sarah Palin m...
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama said this about solar power. McCain said that about climate change. You no longer have to spar with your "green" friends over who is saying what...
Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
In recognition of the baffling popularity of the chant "Drill, baby, drill" at the Republican National Convention, Wired Science has put out a call for creatively remixed videos involving the chant.
Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011
grist.org Sarah Palin's much-anticipated VP acceptance speech on Wednesday night included a lot of energy talk -- and extensive criticism of Barack O...
Joseph Romm | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports.
New York Times | Thomas L. Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011
As we emerge from Labor Day, college students are gathering back on campuses not only to start the fall semester, but also, in some cases, to vote for...
Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Climate change is another area where the platform and candidate differ. The language of the 2008 platform is little changed from 2004, adding that "Re...
Richard Arthur | Posted 05.25.2011
By my estimate, Palin and her husband have received $27,536.41 each and her children collectively $69,766.09 -- all just for living in Alaska and tacitly supporting the Big Oil agenda.
Lloyd Alter | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain says "Drill here, drill now!" to reduce the price of gas, but every time the price of oil goes up, more jobs return from China, and first to the basic heavy industries like steel. Why does he hate the rust belt states? Or, for that matter, Mexico?
Joseph Romm | Posted 05.25.2011
What happens when your country is 50% dependent on coal, and you foolishly adopt McCain's energy and climate plans. Your electricity rates and bills will soar, for several reasons.
Elizabeth Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011
If all 173 million vehicles in America driving around had their tires inflated properly, the total gas savings would be nearly 88 million barrels of oil per year. Who's laughing now?
Joseph Romm | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain has morphed into Dick Cheney's evil twin, hellbent on destroying the possibility of ever having serious energy and climate policy in this country.
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
RAPID CITY, S.D. — John McCain conceded in a new television commercial on Tuesday that "we're worse off than we were four years ago," and said h...
Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011
It's hard to understand how McCain can pretend that he is doing anything other than chasing the polls -- and the oil and nuclear industry's increasingly abundant lubrication of his campaign.
Alan Fein | Posted 05.25.2011
While McCain says he's all for alternative energy, it's kind of like No Child Left Behind -- he doesn't want to help pay for it, especially if it's going to come out of the pockets of the oil companies.
CNN | Posted 05.25.2011
Both major presidential candidates have written "clean coal" into their energy plans. CNN discussed just how similar the big two are. WATCH: ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger looks at John McCain's tax policy and concludes, "This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation."...
Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011
The environmental movement calls on McCain to support the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008, which would repeal subsidies from Big Oil and increase funding for renewables, efficiency and conservation.
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered b...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 05.25.2011
It is remarkable that the Republican Party ad praises McCain for pushing the party to recognize global warming. McCain is depicted as a realist
A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011